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We sought one another long before we met, and by the characters we heard of one another

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.

Indeed, the ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.

Love should run out to meet love with open arms.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Concentration makes the individual life simpler and deeper.

Each day there should be fresh resolution, new strength, and renewed enthusiasm.

Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying.

Happiness is paradoxic because it may coexist with trial, sorrow and poverty.

Happiness is the voice of optimism, of faith, of simple, steadfast love.

The basis of happiness is the love of something outside self.

In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family.

He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights.

How I should love that plain-heartedness you speak of, if you would use it; nothing is civil but that amongst friends.

One may be happy to a good degree, I think, in a faithful friend, a moderate fortune, and a retired life; further than this I know nothing to wish; but if there be anything beyond it, I wish it you.

The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

Each time you happen to me all over again.